MSc Mental Health

On successful completion of the course you will be expected to be able to:

• Synthesise knowledge and understanding related to mental health care needs, including cultural and social.

• Critically evaluate mental health care for service users with complex needs focusing on individualised care and recovery.

• Compare and contrast methods of intervention which promote recovery from the service-users perspective and their carers/families.

• Critically evaluate contemporary mental health care with a focus on an international perspective.

• Present a comprehensive analysis of inter-professional working in mental health care, with a focus on collaborative practice and change management.

• Critically evaluate the application of knowledge, reasoning skills, reflection, and research to mental health care within an ethical and legal framework.

• Demonstrate a critical understanding of alternative ontological, epistemological and methodological perspectives.

• Identify and critically evaluate relevant concepts, models and principals that’s inform and illuminate the area of inquiry.

• Demonstrate originality of problem solving strategies in mental health care, taking into consideration international/national drivers, contemporary issues and collaboration.

• Critically debate how socio-cultural and environmental factors can affect the quality of care for service users and how, through working collaboratively, individual care needs can be met.

• Demonstrate a comprehensive awareness of legal, ethical, moral issues in relation to mental health care, including social inclusion.

• Analyse a range of innovative initiatives which promote recovery from complex mental health issues related to specialist services.

• Critically evaluate research findings and the importance of these in informing and developing mental health care.

• Negotiate a summative, integrative topic or investigation appropriate to mental health care which demonstrates a creative flexible approach.

• Demonstrate competence in the management of a research or work-based project in a way that is consistent with mental health care.